SOUTHERN NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 40, 16 February 1905, Page 5

SOUTHERN NEWS.

TelegrapU.—Press Aseoclitiou;) "

THE SHOPS-ACT!

QUESTION EOS THE PREMIER.

WELLINGTON, tlijs day.

The Trades and Labour Council will interview the Premier to-night and ask why the Shops and Offices -Act' is not being enforced.

GISBORNE. this day.

A large number of intending pur- i chasers from the South are visiting this district with the object of inspecting' the lands of'the East . Coast Ha,tiv&; Trust, shortly to be placed on the market. The settlement of these large areas of pastoral country is expected to add materially to the prosperity of the district.

WHITE FISH OVA.

HOKITE&A, thia day,

Mr. L. F. Ayaou, Inspector of Fisheries, has completed a most successful hatch of white fisb ova recently brought from the United States at Lake Kanieri hatchery. The results equal about 03 per cent. A similar result has been achieved at Lake Tekapo, where half of the colonial shipment was sent. To ensure the thorough establishment of white fish it will be necessary to follow up these with importations for the next two or three years.

DUNEDIN SUPREME COURT.

DUMEDIJf, thU day.

In the Supreme Court to-day, in the case of Dowdall and Dowdall, being the husband's petition for divorce on the ground of desertion, a decree nisi, to be made absolute in three months, was granted. In the case of .Rex v. Borrett, an Invercargill case, arising out of a Melbourne Commission, sitting at the Bluff to compel the attendance of a witness named Waddell, Judge Williams dismissed the motion for attachment.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

GISBORNE, this day*

The Gisborne Bowling Club's team, winners of the Jforth Island tournament, leave here on Sunday to play Newtown, the winneTs of the South {aland tournament, at Wellington next week.

WANGANUT, this day. An old resident, Mrs. Elizabeth Oxen? ham, aged 93, died at Wanganui yesterday. Deceased is said to have arrived in the first ship to New Plymouth. She leaves a large number of relations. She retained her mental faculties till the hist.

The Australian cricketers arrived from Auckland this morning via Taumeranui and Wanganui river. They were delighted with the scenery and the trip. They left at noon for Wellington.

WELLINGTON, this day.

A meeting of the Single Tax League condemned the purchase of land for settlement, and suggested an increased land value tax would destroy land monopoly. A meeting of ladies 4 presided oyer by Lady Ward, decided to establish a ladies' branch of the "Wellington branch of the Navy League with Lady Plunket as patron and Mrs Seddon as president. At Mangaweka last night a shop and dwelling owned by Mr Sydney A, Pull was destroyed by fire. Nothing was saved owing to the absence of water. The insurances are: Building £950. stock £350, and furniture, including a library valued at £200, £2QO. The full estimates of loss total £ IDQO above the insurance.

The Executive Council is expected to meet on Monday to consider recommendation to mercy made by the jury which found Ellis, alias McKenzie, guilty of the Te Awaite muprdier.

The dispute in the furniture trade has been settled by a conference between the employers and the men. Thia applies to city and suburbs, nqt to country districts, which the Conciliation Board will de*l with next week.

DUNEDIX, this day.

Joseph Toomey, for being found on the Provincial Hotel during prohibited hours, was fined ten shillings and costs. Mr Widdows, S.H-, intimated that heavier tines will be imposed in future.; .

PI BE mSUOANCHNEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday, Under the auspices of the Tradesmen's Association, a representative meeting, was held to-night, when the following' resoln* tiooa were passed unanimously it Is desirable that the Government he aa&? Ed next session to amend the law relating to colonial and fareign Insurance c'oinpa"niee dpingbusineas In tlie colony:" "That the terms of tuete policies shall be uniform and approved by the Goyernor-in-Cbu4ell;« "That it shall be" contrary to TaSv for any insurance company in New Zealand to refuse to endorse on their policies the insuraiiees effected In other companies, whether State or private, on the grounds only that such other companies do "not helonp to the Underwriters' AesoeEatUm;" "That "the Government be requested to consider the question of allowing English companies, not having agents or offices In the colony, "to Lw?n B f *l ? qt £ lsurai * c Persons reaiding in ?<ew Zealand, on payment of stamp duty on each policy, according to the amount insured, as Is now the est? > with mar me insnrances, provided tfiktmhlf saranoes he first tendered to the Stiite of-

POLITICAL AX>I>ItE3S. Uty seats, addressed a first meeting nf electors to-night. He hid mietinand was afforded a capital fe ."BStsaj Sea* administration of the Goyernment in several Departments, partlcnlir™'liud and Defence, and was very severe upon tUe . He supported the free hold, and said that he vaa stauiins as an oot-and-ont prohibition**. He ancfeipattd more etaneee of reform uitfer a Liberal GoTeroment than under the Oppositioa. A SOUTHERN COURTS. CHKISTCHUBCH, Wednesday. At the Supreme Court, Paul Ortmann was sentenced to three years' iaiprisomneut Sn r w Wl £ U Jif -*=**&« flre t0 " * shop Jα C^-ombo-street, on December 6. Frederick J Clarke, wao pleaded yUJty to theft or moneys amounting to abeqt£l3Q, recefred .by him as clerk to Templetonßokd Board, «raa admitted to probation for 18' "months and ordered to p»y £s costs of proaeienDUNBDIS ep^PlXAt. DtINEBIN, \yednesday. At a meetlns of the hospital trustee/ tor day, a deputation from the medical stall waited on tie trustees. Dre. Colquohoun Batch elor. Baroett. Closa, and G Maedonald all nrsed the "necesailty for "a new ward, and pointed to the aoritlnnal advance la medicine aud auryery. The relation' of tile hospital to the. rnedlsal school made it Imperative tliat* the hospital should be up-to-dJite In every respect. Th* dental school f» sure t» come itorfly, wltb from fit latejtfr B. HaUenatein. It wu'stfA «M ****** t* th* «mtiM|«t tiiMgs^

.«atee. to raise £1000 IT £3000 could be otherwise raUei vytift" l}«Vt(ameQt could. be approacued fop ttte usuil subsidy. It Iras stated by the chairman that a new pa-rtlioa woulil coat f 10.000- It tie necessary to call & public meeting U dsal